Bryan Gruley is the award-winning author of BLEAK HARBOR, about the kidnapping of an autistic teenage boy. He previously authored the critically acclaimed Starvation Lake trilogy, including Edgar finalist STARVATION LAKE, THE HANGING TREE and THE SKELETON BOX. When he's not making stuff up, he's a staff reporter Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. The former Chicago bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal shared in the Pulitzer Prize given to the Wall Street Journal in 2002 for coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks. A graduate of Notre Dame, avid hockey player and amateur musician, he currently lives with his wife, Pam, in Chicago.